“It must be the fame wall,” she continued. "It must be the circus that goes around me. Me, as a person, I find it hard to believe I would be intimidating."

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Watson also addressed the so-called Brown controversy, a thorny rumor that spread like wildfire, saying that the actress left college because of bullying and students shouting “Harry Potter”-related slights like, “Ten points for Gryffindor!”

“Brown has been the opposite,” the actress said. “I've never even been asked for an autograph on campus.”

Watson seems to have grown a tough skin, too. “I've been dealing with the media since I was nine. If I can't stand up to a few people giving me a hard time, it's a bit pathetic, really,” she said.